Your plan is a long slow approach with many battles to over come.We tried that approach here locally with little positive results. A plan to run primaries is fast and sends a strong message to the leadership, there we had success fast. It only took just over 6 months with huge media coverage simply because what we were doing. The media ate it up because we had Dems and Repubs on the ballot.
Either way something must be done and the time is now.